The Delta independent., 1887-03-22
COLORADO CONDENSED.

The Denver Times has a 81 o, 900 libel
suit on its hands.
Scarlet fever in virulent form is
raging in Leadville.
The Midland is soon to commence a
depot at Leadville to cost 10000.
A nine-foot vein of coal is said to
have been discovered near Eaton.
It is rumored that the d. & r. G.
shops are to be removed to Bessemer.
A hole is to be bored just east of
Pueblo with the expectation of striking
| oil.
Eakers, the Doodle Assistant Ser
geantat-Arms OF the Legislature, has been
| bounced.
The Denver & Rio Grande has been
granted the right to build through the Fort
Crawford reservation.
An old man named Joseph Pratt,
while engaged in quarrel in Denver, was
knocked into well and drowned.
A mass meeting of those in favor of
railroad legislation was held in Leadville
Wednesday. 1t was largely attended.
L. P. Boyd. locomotive engineer on
the Denver, Utah and Pacific railroad was
killed on the 10th by failing from his en-
gine.
The manager Of the Grand River
Coal company has orders to be ready to ship
1000 tons IF coal a day when the Midland
arrives.
There are more charcoal furnaces in
operation about Leadville than at any
period for years. -Four men are employed to
the kiln.
The Burlington and Missouri con-
tractors are prosecuting the work on the
roadbed on an energetic scale in Eagle
county.
Ellwood n. jenkins, Denver bust
iness man, has been arrested on the charge
Of causing the death Of Minnie Davy by
| abortion.
A fire on Cheyenne Mountain. near
Colorado Springs, burned over large tract
of territory and destroyed an immense
amount OF property.
The oak ties that are used by the Col
orado Midland on Its sharp curves are pro-
cured at cost of el.5o each, 5000 being
now at Colorado Springs.
There are now about 800 men en-
ployed in the canon between Red Cliff and
Dotsero, while the whole number on the pay
roll from Glenwood to Red Clin is about
1000.
Boston is the name of new town in
the eastern part of Las Animas county,
| which on the 2lst of last November con-
sisted Of one tent II now boasts of sew
enty-ive houses with 100 more under con-
tract
The earnings Of the Rio Grande for
the second week in March were el3s. 600, an
increase OF 81, ,5ii over the corresponding
week last year, or 2a.l9 per cent. The in
crease in earning for the year thus far have
been tea., 100, or 27.e7 per cent
W. II. Cox. of Denver, the builder of
the Albany Hotel, was shot and mortally
wounded in Wyoming last week. He was
engaged in a grading contract for the Union
Pacific and was very much disliked by his
men, one of whom did the shooting.
Glenwood Springs is said to be fair
ly boiling with activity. Buildings are be
ing rapidly erected, large forces of railroad
graders are working in the vicinity, and
there are thirty saloons In the place which
take pleasure in relieving them Of their
wages.
House bill No. 1853. which has been
signed by Governor Adams, forbids the
killing of beaver for a period of six years,
brt according to Its provisions farmers are
permitted to destroy beaver on their own
land when such animals become destructive
to timber.
A land boom Of immense proportions
has struck the towns along the Arkansas
river. Investments are being made rapidly
at La Junta and Las Animas. More than
| forty lots were sold In one day recently Mt
the former place. Excursions of land hunt
ers arc arriving from the east nearly every
| day.
A large magazine Of high explosives
in Douglas City, at the eastern end of Ha-
german Tunnel, exploded few days ago,
wrecking many buildings in the vicinity
and causing general CONSERVATION. The
shock was plainly felt in Leadville, where
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quake.
Nathan Falk, a commercial man, at
tempted suicide the other day by throwing
himself from the third floor OF the
Chamber Of Commerce building in Denver
down the elevator way to the basement.
Although he fell sixty-fve feet he had no
bones broken, though he received internal
injuries which will probably prove fatal.
The Pueblo Smelling and Refining
Company, which has been making extern
siye improvements In Its plant will start
again full-handed on the first OF April, by
which time II Is expected to have their pro-
cess for the treatment Of low-grade copper
ores completed and In operation. This will
add 900 men to their payroll, making about
b00.men employed.
ut never rains but that II pours" Is
an cid spying that is proving true In the
case Of our young and thrifty little city at
the present time. And now comes news
that tho Midland is intending to erect q
ea5o, 900 hotel, superior to any this side Of
Chicago, besides building bath houses,
parks, etc., and that II Is their intention to
nun excuraion trains To and from I,eadville